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ITEXPO East 2012

February 21, 2012

Miami, FL Miami Beach Convention Center January 31 - February 3, 2012 Calysto Overview One of the oldest B2B communications and technology events series is the TMC ITEXPO conferences that were launched in 1999 to educate enterprises, SMBs, government agencies and other end users about IP-based, B2B communications solutions. For 2012, the three-day ITEXPO East [...]

 

Yankee Group Sells 4G World

February 7, 2012

Yes, we did call this one last year. The 4G World trade show and exposition has been sold to UBM plc, a global media company. The sale of the stand-alone business unit allows Yankee Group to focus exclusively on research and advisory services, as well as concentrate more investment into new products. According to UBM’s [...]

 

David Kieselstein Named CEO at Penton

February 7, 2012

Penton Media – The publisher has named David Kieselstein as CEO. He was previously CEO of TNS North America, a custom research division of WPP. Kieselstein succeeds Sharon Rowlands, who left Penton to join Altegrity as CEO on Nov. 1. Kieselstein had previously led Dun & Bradstreet's small-business division. Prior to that, he had spent [...]

 

Joe McGarvey Leaves Current Analysis

February 7, 2012

Joe McGarvey, Principal Analyst has departed from Current Analysis as of Friday. Joe had been with the analyst firm since December 2002 covering the carrier-based IP services infrastructure market. Prior to joining Current Analysis, Joe was executive editor of The Net Economy, a Ziff Davis publication focused on the telecommunications space. Prior to The Net [...]

 

Metcalfe and Jobs recommend Marketing as first priority

February 1, 2012

Internet Pioneer Bob Metcalfe at ITEXPO West’s StartupCamp Event While ITEXPO is taking place in Miami this week, we thought we’d share with you a speech given by Internet pioneer Dr. Robert (Bob) M. Metcalfe at StartupCamp during last fall’s ITEXPO. During his presentation, Dr. Metcalfe reminisced about Steve Jobs, who approached him about designing [...]

 

PR Vibes: Connecting the Dots.

January 31, 2012

Someone recently told me that it may not be obvious why we do this newsletter and blog. Bear with me for a minute as I spell it out. The Origin of PR Vibes: We are a social and traditional PR agency serving the communications technology industry. We have produced the PR Vibes newsletter (at no [...]

 

CES 2012

January 26, 2012

Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Convention Center January 10-13, 2012   Attendance:  153,000 Exhibitors:  3,100 Media and analysts: 3,000+   Calysto Overview To paraphrase Mark Twain, “Rumors of the demise of CES have been greatly exaggerated.” In spite of dire predictions that this year’s annual tech gadget extravaganza would be a bust, the Consumer Electronics [...]

 

Rich Karpinski Joins Yankee Group

January 25, 2012

Rich Karpinski has signed on as a new Senior Analyst following the closing of Connected Planet, where he was Editor-in-Chief for four years.  Rich will be focused heavily on mobile operator business models, service delivery strategies and the overall dynamics of the mobile ecosystem.

 

Gene Signorini Promoted to SVP of Research at Yankee

January 25, 2012

Gene Signorini has been promoted to Senior VP of Research following Gigi Wang’s departure. He is coordinating the team’s focus on analyzing the impact of mobility across enabling technologies, business models and more. Gene is an industry analyst, with more than 17 years experience in the mobile and wireless industry, including 11 years at Yankee [...]

 

Chris Preimesberger Promoted at eWeek

January 25, 2012

Chris Preimesberger has been promoted to editor in chief of features and analysis for eWeek. He was previously a senior writer. He will continue to write the Storage Station blog for the publication. eWeek has a circulation of 225,000 subscribers.

 
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